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			</span><span id="formsSpanBlock2"><p><span id="eid1200722090">α.  (In plural form)   ME <strong id="eid1201030080">cyntrers</strong> (apparently transmission error),   lME <strong id="eid1200899070">sintiris</strong>,   lME <strong id="eid1200899090">synetres</strong>,   lME <strong id="eid1200900010">syntrees</strong>,   17–18 <strong id="eid1200900060">cintres</strong>;   <em>Scottish</em>  pre-17 <strong id="eid1200901020">cintreis</strong>,   pre-17 <strong id="eid1200901050">sintreis</strong>,   pre-17 <strong id="eid1200901080">sintries</strong>,   pre-17 <strong id="eid1200902010">synetries</strong>,   pre-17 <strong id="eid1200902040">syntreis</strong>. </span></p><p><span id="eid1200899020">β.  (In singular form)  lME <strong id="eid1200718030">cynter</strong>,   lME <strong id="eid1200718060">cyynt</strong> (transmission error),   lME <strong id="eid1196857030">sintyr</strong>,   lME <strong id="eid1196857060">syyntir</strong>,   lME <strong id="eid1196857090">syyntyr</strong>,   15 <strong id="eid1212235400">synter</strong>,   17–18 <strong id="eid1196858020">cintre</strong>. </span></p></span><span id="formsSpanBlock3" style="display: none;">... </span><a href="https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/33150?print#" class="more" id="formsMoreLess" onclick="showMoreLess(&#39;forms&#39;, false); return false;">(Show Less)</a></div><div xmlns:m="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions" xmlns:ms="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" xmlns:dt="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:datatypes" xmlns:avail="java:com.oup.oed.DocExistence" xmlns:util="java:com.oup.oed.Util" class="preEntry"><strong>Origin: </strong><span id="etymSummary" class="etymSummary">A borrowing from French. <b>Etymons:</b> French <em>syntre</em>, <em>cintre</em>.</span></div><div xmlns:m="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions" xmlns:ms="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" xmlns:dt="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:datatypes" xmlns:avail="java:com.oup.oed.DocExistence" xmlns:util="java:com.oup.oed.Util" class="etymology preEntry" id="eid9440563"><span id="etymologySpanBlock1"><strong>Etymology: </strong> &lt;  Anglo-Norman <em>syntre</em> and Middle French <em>cintre</em></span><span id="etymologySpanBlock2"> vault (1300 in Old French; earlier currency is probably implied by Old French <em>cintreel</em> <span class="ieWhitespace">&nbsp;</span> (<i>c</i>1260)), temporary supporting framework (late 14th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman, 1549 in Middle French)  &lt;  <em>cintrer</em> <span class="ieWhitespace">&nbsp;</span> to provide with a vault (although this is apparently first attested later: 1349, earliest in the past participle <em>chintré</em> <span class="ieWhitespace">&nbsp;</span>)  &lt;  an unattested post-classical Latin verb <em>*cincturare</em> <span class="ieWhitespace">&nbsp;</span> to girdle or gird  &lt;  <em>cinctūra</em> <span class="ieWhitespace">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/33068#eid9430156" class="crossReferencePopup" rel="33068" rev="/view/Entry/33068#eid9430156" onmouseover="javascript:viewCrossReferencePopup(this,&#39;/view/Entry/33068#eid9430156&#39;);return false;" onfocus="javascript:viewCrossReferencePopup(this,&#39;/view/Entry/33068#eid9430156&#39;);return false;" onmouseout="javascript:stopCrossReferencePopup(this);return false;"><span class="xref"><span class="smallCaps">cincture</span> <span class="ps">n.</span></span></a> <span class="ieWhitespace">&nbsp;</span><div>&nbsp;</div>Compare post-classical Latin <em>cintra</em> <span class="ieWhitespace">&nbsp;</span>, <em>cintrus</em> <span class="ieWhitespace">&nbsp;</span>, <em>cintor</em> <span class="ieWhitespace">&nbsp;</span> (frequently from 12th cent. in British sources).<div>&nbsp;</div>Compare <a href="https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/39382441#eid1201077070" class="crossReferencePopup" rel="39382441" rev="/view/Entry/39382441#eid1201077070" onmouseover="javascript:viewCrossReferencePopup(this,&#39;/view/Entry/39382441#eid1201077070&#39;);return false;" onfocus="javascript:viewCrossReferencePopup(this,&#39;/view/Entry/39382441#eid1201077070&#39;);return false;" onmouseout="javascript:stopCrossReferencePopup(this);return false;"><span class="xref"><span class="smallCaps">centre</span> <span class="ps">n.<sup>2</sup></span></span></a>, <a href="https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/39383841#eid1201150010" class="crossReferencePopup" rel="39383841" rev="/view/Entry/39383841#eid1201150010" onmouseover="javascript:viewCrossReferencePopup(this,&#39;/view/Entry/39383841#eid1201150010&#39;);return false;" onfocus="javascript:viewCrossReferencePopup(this,&#39;/view/Entry/39383841#eid1201150010&#39;);return false;" onmouseout="javascript:stopCrossReferencePopup(this);return false;"><span class="xref"><span class="smallCaps">centering</span> <span class="ps">n.</span></span></a>, <a href="https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/39383948#eid1201151050" class="crossReferencePopup" rel="39383948" rev="/view/Entry/39383948#eid1201151050" onmouseover="javascript:viewCrossReferencePopup(this,&#39;/view/Entry/39383948#eid1201151050&#39;);return false;" onfocus="javascript:viewCrossReferencePopup(this,&#39;/view/Entry/39383948#eid1201151050&#39;);return false;" onmouseout="javascript:stopCrossReferencePopup(this);return false;"><span class="xref"><span class="smallCaps">centring</span> <span class="ps">n.<sup>2</sup></span></span></a>, <a href="https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/37911746#eid1194743060" class="crossReferencePopup" rel="37911746" rev="/view/Entry/37911746#eid1194743060" onmouseover="javascript:viewCrossReferencePopup(this,&#39;/view/Entry/37911746#eid1194743060&#39;);return false;" onfocus="javascript:viewCrossReferencePopup(this,&#39;/view/Entry/37911746#eid1194743060&#39;);return false;" onmouseout="javascript:stopCrossReferencePopup(this);return false;"><span class="xref"><span class="smallCaps">cintern</span> <span class="ps">n.</span></span></a>, and also <a href="https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/47096186#eid1211484810" class="crossReferencePopup" rel="47096186" rev="/view/Entry/47096186#eid1211484810" onmouseover="javascript:viewCrossReferencePopup(this,&#39;/view/Entry/47096186#eid1211484810&#39;);return false;" onfocus="javascript:viewCrossReferencePopup(this,&#39;/view/Entry/47096186#eid1211484810&#39;);return false;" onmouseout="javascript:stopCrossReferencePopup(this);return false;"><span class="xref">α.  forms at <span class="smallCaps">full centre</span> <span class="ps">n.</span> and <span class="ps">adj.</span></span></a><div class="etymNote">It is unclear whether the following early example is to be interpreted as showing the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman word (in an otherwise unattested form):<div class="quotationsBlock" id="eid1200719030"><div class="quotation" id="eid862150011"><span class="noIndent" id="eid862150021"><span>1399–1400&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <em>Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer</em> (P.R.O.: E 101/473/11) m. 1</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				Pro iiij<sup>C</sup> pedibus bordarum..emptis pro duobus Cyntours inde faciendis ad supportandum arcum Magne fenestre.</div></div><div>&nbsp;</div>Quot. <a class="crossReferencePopup" rev="/view/Entry/33150#eid862451001" rel="33150" href="https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/33150?print#eid862451001" onclick="javascript:window.location = this.href;" onmouseover="javascript:viewCrossReferencePopup(this,&#39;/view/Entry/33150#eid862451001&#39;);return false;" onfocus="javascript:viewCrossReferencePopup(this,&#39;/view/Entry/33150#eid862451001&#39;);return false;" onmouseout="javascript:stopCrossReferencePopup(this);return false;"><span class="xref">1371</span></a> <span class="ieWhitespace">&nbsp;</span> could also show the Anglo-Norman rather than the Middle English word (again, in an otherwise unattested form).<div>&nbsp;</div> <em>N.E.D.</em> (<span>1889</span>) gives the pronunciation as (si·ntəɹ) <a target="_blank" href="https://public.oed.com/how-to-use-the-oed/key-to-pronunciation/">/<span class="phonetics">ˈsɪntə(r)</span>/</a>.</div></span><span id="etymologySpanBlock3" style="display: none;">... </span><a href="https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/33150?print#" class="more" id="etymologyMoreLess" onclick="showMoreLess(&#39;etymology&#39;, false); return false;" style="">(Show Less)</a></div><div xmlns:m="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions" xmlns:ms="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" xmlns:dt="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:datatypes" xmlns:avail="java:com.oup.oed.DocExistence" xmlns:util="java:com.oup.oed.Util" class="senseSect entryBase"> <em>Building</em>. <em>Obsolete</em>.<div class="senseWrap" id="eid9440590"><div class="senseGroup" id="eid9440592" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="top"><div class="corner" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="categoriesWrapper"><a class="categoriesRef" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="javascript:viewCategoryPopup(this);return false;" rel="9440592">Categories »</a></div>
							&nbsp;
						</div><h3 id="eid9440592">&nbsp; A temporary framework used to support an arch, dome, etc., esp. while it is under construction; (in <em>plural</em>) the pieces comprising this. Cf. <a class="crossReferencePopup" rev="/view/Entry/39382441#eid9945149" rel="39382441" href="https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/39382441#eid9945149" onclick="javascript:window.location = this.href;" onmouseover="javascript:viewCrossReferencePopup(this,&#39;/view/Entry/39382441#eid9945149&#39;);return false;" onfocus="javascript:viewCrossReferencePopup(this,&#39;/view/Entry/39382441#eid9945149&#39;);return false;" onmouseout="javascript:stopCrossReferencePopup(this);return false;"><span class="xref"><span class="smallCaps">centre</span> <span class="ps">n.<sup>2</sup></span> 1</span></a>, <a class="crossReferencePopup" rev="/view/Entry/39383948#eid9712197" rel="39383948" href="https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/39383948#eid9712197" onclick="javascript:window.location = this.href;" onmouseover="javascript:viewCrossReferencePopup(this,&#39;/view/Entry/39383948#eid9712197&#39;);return false;" onfocus="javascript:viewCrossReferencePopup(this,&#39;/view/Entry/39383948#eid9712197&#39;);return false;" onmouseout="javascript:stopCrossReferencePopup(this);return false;"><span class="xref"><span class="smallCaps">centring</span> <span class="ps">n.<sup>2</sup></span></span></a><span class="note" id="eid1212235410">In the 16th and 17th centuries apparently chiefly <em>Scottish</em>.</span></h3></div><div class="frame" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="quotationsBlock" id="eid9440594"><div class="quotation" id="eid862451001"><span class="noIndent" id="eid862451011"><span>1371&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  in  D. M. Owen <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="22289646">Making of King's Lynn</a></em> 
		(1984)
	 326</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				5s 4d solutis pro bordis pro cyntrers et kreles.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid857170031"><span class="noIndent" id="eid857170051"><span>1411&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <em>Fabric Roll</em> in  <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0093083">Norfolk Archaeol.</a></em> 
		(1904)
	 <strong>15</strong> 170</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				Payed for iiij popyl bordys bought in market for syntrees to j vice.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid862201001"><span class="noIndent" id="eid862201011"><span>1435&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  in  J. Stuart  &amp; G. Burnett <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0092641">Exchequer Rolls Scotl.</a></em> 
		(1880)
	 IV. 619</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				Viginti octo plankis, sex sintreis vitri [etc.].</div><div class="quotation" id="eid9440603"><span class="noIndent" id="eid313991476"><span class="dateWedge">
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				    1440&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0001417">Promptorium Parvulorum</a></em> 
		(Harl. 221)
	 456</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				Syyntyr, or [<em>read</em> of] masonrye [1499 <em>Pynson</em> syyntir of masunry, <i>a</i>1500 <em>King's Cambr.</em> sintyr of masonry], <em>sinctorium</em> [1499 <em>Pynson</em> <em>cingatorium</em>].</div><div class="quotation" id="eid862150041"><span class="noIndent" id="eid862150051"><span><i>c</i>1450&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <span class="smallCaps">J. Capgrave</span> <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0111804">Solace of Pilgrims</a></em> 
		(Bodl. 423)
	 
		(1911)
	 38 (<em>MED</em>)</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				Þis temple..myth not haue so grete sintiris as þe arches ar wyde, and þerfor he ded make a grete hill of erde and couchid all þese uoutes þerupon.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid862288081"><span class="noIndent" id="eid862288091"><span>1511–12&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  in  J. B. Paul <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0098619">Accts. Treasurer Scotl.</a></em> 
		(1902)
	 IV. 275</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				For syntreis to the werk of the revestre.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid993024641"><span class="noIndent" id="eid993024651"><span>1530&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <span class="smallCaps">J. Palsgrave</span> <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0000124">Lesclarcissement</a></em>  <span class="smallCaps">iii.</span> f. lxiv/1</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				Synter of masonry.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid862280011"><span class="noIndent" id="eid862280021"><span>1578–9&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <em>Treasurer's Accts. Burgh Haddington</em> 
		(National Archives Scotl.: GD/1/413/4)
	 in  <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="22285848">Dict. Older Sc. Tongue</a></em> at <em>Centreis</em></span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				For bigging vp of the windois of the auld scule,..and strykin of the cintreis &amp; scaffeting.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid862289001"><span class="noIndent" id="eid862289011"><span>1672&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  in  C. S. Romanes <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0474977">Sel. Rec. Regality of Melrose</a></em> 
		(1915)
	 II. 322</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				Soe meikle timber as to be synetries [<em>printed</em> fynetries] to the said bridge.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid857720071"><span class="noIndent" id="eid857720081"><span>1760&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <span class="smallCaps">S. Riou</span> <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="1399082">Short Princ. Archit. Stone-bridges</a></em> xii. 71</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				The manner of taking down the cintres of a bridge, demands all the attention of him by whose inspection the work has been brought to its last period.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid993024671"><span class="noIndent" id="eid993024681"><span>1824&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <span class="smallCaps">J. Elmes</span> <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="1264367">Gen. Dict. Fine Arts</a></em> (at cited word)</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				Cintres should always be formed of the exact shape of the intended arch, groin, &amp;c.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid862230021"><span class="noIndent" id="eid862230031"><span>1826&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="22284662">Boyer's Fr. Dict.</a></em> 163/1</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				<em>Décintrement</em>, removing of the mould or cintres of an arch after it is built.</div></div><p class="quotations"><span class="quotationDate" style="display: none;">1371—1826</span><a href="https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/33150?print#" class="toggleQuotationsClass" onclick="toggleQuotations(this, &#39;eid9440594&#39;); return false;" id="hideQuotations">(Hide quotations)</a></p></div><div class="bottom" deluminate_imagetype="gif"><div class="corner" deluminate_imagetype="gif">&nbsp;</div></div></div></div></div><div xmlns:m="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions" xmlns:ms="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" xmlns:dt="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:datatypes" xmlns:avail="java:com.oup.oed.DocExistence" xmlns:util="java:com.oup.oed.Util" class="entryFooter"><p id="shortPubStatement">This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016).</p></div><div xmlns:m="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions" xmlns:ms="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" xmlns:dt="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:datatypes" xmlns:avail="java:com.oup.oed.DocExistence" xmlns:util="java:com.oup.oed.Util" id="datePopupWrapper" style="display: none"><div id="datePopup"><p>
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